Dear Pret A Manger...

[FairyTiggybelle]

I recently bought a can of your fizzy orange juice drink from your Trafalgar Square branch. As I drank it sitting under an enormous blue cock, I read the can. "No nasties" it said. Then I read the ingredients. It turned out there was more grape juice in it than there was orange juice. Now I know that grape juice isn't some weird artificial chemical and lots of people drink it on purpose and lead happy and fulfilling lives, but I do think that in this case the grape juice was a "Nasty". It was something I didn't want to drink, somewhere where I didn't expect it to be. Black pudding is loved by many people and is also perfectly edible, but you wouldn't slip it into a strawberry cheesecake. Or would you my dear Pret? Maybe we should all start checking your cheese sandwiches for traces of roast badger? Your crisps for deep fried weasel flakes? Your brownies for... real brownies?
Am I being unreasonable for expecting Pret A Manger's labels to reflect what is inside?

(The answer is no BTW)

Avoid anything that says 'juice drink' on the label.

They are always full of other crap. Not that grape juice is crap.

So, I think YANBU to feel hard done by, but YABU to blame Prêt.
You need labelling education: Only ever buy 'water' or 'juice'.

YABU to trust anyone who refers to ingredients as "nasties". They are clearly not old enough to be responsible for your foodstuffs.

Please explain the enormous blue cock . . . please!

Oh yes, the blue cock caught my eye too - expand, please?

Tropicana is guilty of this too but apple juice is their sneaky ingredient.

Blue cock

The enormous cock is currently on the forth plinth in Trafalgar Square.

YANBU.
You should write to them -if you want a gift voucher - or trading standards if you want something done about it. I though that a product couldn't be sold as X juice if there was more of product Y in it.

The Giant Blue Cock on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square!

They are all at it - 'Tropical juice' is mainly apple and grape juice with a tiny bit of pineapple and passion fruit or something thrown in.
Still nice.
And still actual juice.

I hate juice drink with a passion.

Errr - grape juice is fly food (i thought everyone knew this!)

Ah, that Blue Cock! Us in the provinces are not that familiar with it

"Oh yes, the blue cock caught my eye too - expand, please"

Expand??? really?

Google "blue cock" if you want to see it.

FairyTiggyBelle Thank you - I work nearby and should have remembered, Trafalgar Square was a clue.

To the pure all things are pure, which does not say much for me.

boris doesn't look impressed!

Googled the blue cock and am disappointed.

YABU btw. It's a bit cheeky but it's still a healthy drink.

I'm be used at your naivety,buying fizzy ginger expecting it to be umm healthy
Look it's chemical soup in a can,pretending to be healthy.

But it said "No nasties"! If we can't trust huge companies to care about us, who can we trust?

I think you're yanking the chain,no one can honestly think canned,fruit ginger is healthy
You want health,buy water, or fresh oj.not chemical soup

Yabu. If you really expected fizzy orange to be made of pure orange juice, then you are at best naive and at worst daft.

I like Pret -the only place on the high street where you don't feel ripped off after buying a coffee (filter is only 99p).

Now where IS that black pudding for my cheesecake?

:)

Scotishmummy - It was fizzy orange, not ginger.

I thought products had to be "as described"? It was pretty healthy actually, but it was grape and orange soda, not Orange.